Transition Management

Manage Cost, Contain Risk, Maintain Value

Minimize the direct or indirect costs associated with the purchase or sale of securities.

To help you manage cost and risk when restructuring your investment portfolio, the Northern Trust team consults with you to create and execute a customized strategy. With experience and expertise gained since 1987, we offer you a distinctive and disciplined approach to transition management in all asset classes including: equities, fixed income, and derivatives.

Our Services:

Setting Transition Objectives – We consult with you to understand the context and objectives of your transition: overall allocation, benchmark and manager changes, timing concerns, and risk restrictions

Trading and Settlement – The transition team will coordinate all aspects of your transition including legal documentation, trading, and settlement. You receive daily progress reports as well as timely trade and performance data

Grant Johnsey

Grant Johnsey

Head of Institutional Brokerage

Grant Johnsey is a Senior Vice President at Northern Trust. He joined Northern Trust in 2004 as the transition strategist for North America-based clients. His responsibilities include communicating with the consultant community on the Transition Management product and working with clients to understand their goals and devise the optimal strategy to achieve them.

Prior to joining Northern Trust, Mr. Johnsey spent over five years in the institutional brokerage industry. Most recently, he served as director of portfolio trading for Capital Institutional Services. Part of the responsibilities of this position were to develop and grow their transition management business.

He received a B.S. degree from Trinity University and holds Series 7, 9, 10, 24, 55 and 63 Licenses.

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